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Exactly. An electric drill is useless for me in a daily basis, but it doesn't mean it's useless for a carpenter.

• rchaud 3y ago
  Electric drill companies aren't being attributed deity-like capabilities and unicorn valuations on $0 revenue.
  • boredemployee 3y ago
    That's not a new phenomenon and it's not the tool's fault.
    • rchaud 3y ago
      It's the fault of the manufacturer, but that is a distinction without a difference. OpenAI has marketed it as an "everything" tool, whereas McMaster-Carr have been more conservative about the capabilities of theirs. An electric drill's capabilities are known, in the way AI's is not. There's no drill bit coming in Q4 that will let you drill into steel for example. But there will be a GPT 4.5 or something that will add new capabilities.
      • boredemployee 3y ago
        I'm not sure I buy that. After so many disappointments in the tech universe (and with some AI winter in the past) people in the industry should not be naive to the point of thinking that OpenAI would solve all the industry's problems. >> OpenAI has marketed it as an "everything" tool That's what all companies do all the time. Should we blame capitalism?